In 1893, a group of colonial officials from thirteen countries abandoned their imperial rivalry
and established the International Colonial Institute (ICI), which became the world's most …

Having built much of their wealth, power, and identities on imperial expansion, how did the
Portuguese and, by extension, Europeans deal with the end of empire? Postcolonial People …

Poland in a Colonial World Order is a study of the interwar Polish state and empire building
project in a changing world of empires, nation-states, dominions, protectorates, mandates …

Labour studies in the African colonial period are facing a revival, but literature on the role
and working conditions of children remains over-generalized. At the same time, child labour …

Reciprocal migration—which we define as the mutual exchange of origin and destination by
two different migrating groups—is hardly acknowledged in the migration literature. In terms …

How and why did the African elite turn from loyal intermediaries into opponents of the
colonial state? This book wants to help better understand the dramatic political and cultural …

This paper assesses the effect of the colonial status of ex-colonies, settler's mortality rate,
and duration of colonization on income inequality using a dataset comprising 78 developing …

The Portuguese colonial empire was the first and the last European empire overseas, from
the conquest of Ceuta (1415), in Morocco, North Africa, until the formal handover of Macau …

Population Politics in the Tropics explores colonial population policies in Angola between
1890 and 1945 from a transimperial perspective. Using a wide array of previously unused …

The history of the convoluted devolution of power in late colonialism can only be fully
apprehended if its international and transnational dimensions are brought into the picture …